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Friday
, May 5
Back Bay Room
10:30am •
1M: Keep the Narrative Going: Effective Methods to Provide Context in Fiction
FULL
12:00pm •
2C: Writing Without Fear: How to Break Through Your Own Barriers and Be a Literary Badass
FILLING
2:15pm •
3K: The Clock
FULL
4:00pm •
4D: Lessons from the Road: What Does It Really Take to Launch Your Novel?
FULL
Beacon Hill Room
10:30am •
1B: Essentials of Structure
FULL
12:00pm •
2M: How to Write a Mystery Novel
FULL
2:15pm •
3L: Life Isn’t A Book Structure: Strategies for Shaping Memoir
FILLING
4:00pm •
4L: Essentials of Detail
Cabot Room
10:30am •
1D: Layering: A Structured Approach to Revision (Section I)
FILLING
12:00pm •
2F: We the Narrators
2:15pm •
3G: There Are Too Many Feelings! How to Write About the World When It Feels Like It's Moving Too Fast.
4:00pm •
4H: Everybody’s Talking at Me: How Eliminating Multiple Points of View Might Save Your Novel (and Your Sanity)
Cambridge Room
10:30am •
1F: Write What You Don't Know: How to Trust Your Imagination to Create Fictional Worlds
FILLING
12:00pm •
2H: 10 Rules for Writing Historical Fiction
2:15pm •
3M: Do I Need to Explain That? On Cultural & Linguistic Translation
4:00pm •
4J: X-Ray Writing: Techniques for Getting Closer to Your Characters (Section 1)
FILLING
Charles River Room
10:30am •
1A: Public Speaking for the Painfully Shy Author
12:00pm •
2A: The Writing Life
2:15pm •
3E: Stealth Description
FILLING
4:00pm •
4N: Setting Fiction in Other Cultures
Franklin Room
10:30am •
1E: Essentials of the Young Adult Novel
FILLING
12:00pm •
2E: Beyond Almond Eyes and Chocolate Skin: Indicating Racial and Ethnic Identity
FILLING
2:15pm •
3D: Considerations for Writing LGBTQ Characters and Content
4:00pm •
4K: Understanding Amazon's Place in Writers' Lives
Grand Ballroom
9:00am •
Welcoming Convocation & Opening Keynote
Newbury Room
10:30am •
1L: Microhistories: Writing Deeply about Narrow Subjects
12:00pm •
2B: Essentials of Humor
2:15pm •
3C: Writing a Nonfiction Book Proposal
FILLING
4:00pm •
4E: Experimental Uses of Form in Fiction
St. James Room
10:30am •
1C: Outsourcing for Writers: When Does It Make Sense, What You Need to Know.
12:00pm •
2K: Writing the Marvelous
FILLING
2:15pm •
3A: Mix and Match: Image and Imitation
4:00pm •
4F: How to be Interesting to Kids
Statler Room
7:30pm •
Spitballing Event
Stuart Room
10:30am •
1G: Race and the Situation of the Writer in 2017
12:00pm •
2L: Spaces of Home and the Shape of the Story
2:15pm •
3H: Half the Story: Writing for the Picture Book Market
4:00pm •
4B: Race & Identity in Fiction & Nonfiction
FILLING
TBA
7:30am •
Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore and Authors’ Bazaar Browsing
1:00pm •
Lunch Break
5:15pm •
Lit Lounge
5:30pm •
Shop Talk Happy Hour
5:30pm •
Literary Walking Tour: The Hub of Literary America
6:30pm •
Dinner Break
7:00pm •
Who Are We When We’re At Home: the Black Experience in Boston
Tremont Room
10:30am •
1K: How to Talk and Work With Editors
FILLING
12:00pm •
2G: A Publicity Primer for the Newly Published Author
FULL
2:15pm •
3B: Essentials of Point of View
FILLING
4:00pm •
4M: Let Me Clear My Throat: Voice in Narrative
FILLING
White Hill Room
10:30am •
1J: From Q to S to P (to R): A Big Q&A Focusing on Querying, Submitting, Publishing, (and Rejection)
FULL
12:00pm •
2D: All-Conference Read in NonFiction: Cinderland by Amy Jo Burns
2:15pm •
3F: The Perfect Pitch: Getting Media Attention for Your Book
FILLING
4:00pm •
4A: A Marketplace Primer for the Aspiring Writer of Literary Fiction
FILLING
Whittier Room
10:30am •
1H: Craft Compelling Prose and Increase Suspense Using Mystery and Thriller Writing Techniques
FILLING
12:00pm •
2J: Making a Scene: Practical Tools to Analyze What's Working and What's Not
FILLING
2:15pm •
3J: The Changing Face of Publishing: What All Authors Need to Know
FULL
4:00pm •
4G: Finding and Writing the Story Worth Telling
FILLING
Winthrop Room
4:00pm •
4C: Method Writing
Saturday
, May 6
Back Bay Room
10:15am •
5J: Action Talks: Revealing Character Through Behavior
FULL
11:45am •
6L: Essentials of Dialogue
FILLING
2:00pm •
7M: Structuring the Novel
FULL
3:45pm •
8E: You're the Boss: Taking Control of Your Book's Promotion Plan
Beacon Hill Room
10:15am •
5N: Write in the Feels: Fictional Emotion
11:45am •
6C: The Relationship Between Bookstores & Authors: The Good, The Bad, The Wonderful
2:00pm •
7E: How To Write A Kick-Ass Essay
FULL
3:45pm •
8M: Let’s Hear It: Creating Memorable Voices in Fiction
FILLING
Cabot Room
10:15am •
5L: Magic Carpet: Creating a Sense of Place in Fiction
11:45am •
6H: What's Your Creative Type?
FILLING
2:00pm •
7J: How I Write: Finding the Right Time, Place, Music and Drink
3:45pm •
8C: When Facts Fail Us: Nonfiction Writing Beyond the Limits of Fact
Cambridge Room
10:15am •
5C: Disentangling Time
FILLING
11:45am •
6B: From the O. Henry Files: Practical Advice for Writing and Submitting Short Stories
FULL
2:00pm •
7B: 7 Key Questions You Need to Answer to Successfully Publish Your Nonfiction Book
FILLING
3:45pm •
8H: Going Public: An Honest Conversation About Publishing Memoir
FILLING
Charles River Room
10:15am •
5H: Agents and Editors of Color Roundtable
FULL
Constitution Room
10:15am •
5G: What She Writes and How She Publishes It
11:45am •
6D: Sounds Like a Book: Voice, Rhythm, and the Music of Prose
FILLING
3:45pm •
8J: Two Brains Are Better: How to Write Collaboratively
Franklin Room
10:15am •
5D: Media Training: Represent Your Work With Style
11:45am •
6F: The Art of Setting
2:00pm •
7H: Navigating Book Publicity: From Galleys through Post-Publication
3:45pm •
8A: Me & I: Duality of the First Person Pronoun in Memoir and Personal Essay
Grand Ballroom
9:00am •
Mid-Muse Keynote: Isabel Wilkerson
FILLING
Newbury Room
10:15am •
5E: 4 Lies People Will Tell You About Marketing Your Novel
11:45am •
6K: In the Meantime: The Writer's Life While Waiting
2:00pm •
7D: The Sublime Possibilities of Historical Fiction
3:45pm •
8N: Right Place Right Time
St. James Room
10:15am •
5P: Essentials of Voice in Fiction
11:45am •
6A: Getting Noticed, Read, and Understood on Sensitive Topics
FILLING
2:00pm •
7G: Developing Your Memoir
FILLING
3:45pm •
8L: All-Conference Read in Fiction: Him Me Muhammad Ali by Randa Jarrar, In Conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch
FILLING
Stuart Room
10:15am •
5A: What Literary Magazine Are You? Get to Know 5 Literary Magazines Up Close and Personal
11:45am •
6G: All in the Details
2:00pm •
7A: Writing Like an Editor
FILLING
3:45pm •
8K: Non-Fiction Idea Clinic
TBA
7:30am •
Registration, Hot Breakfast Buffet, Bookstore and Authors’ Bazaar Browsing
12:45pm •
Lunch Break
5:00pm •
Lit Lounge
5:30pm •
Literary Walking Tour: Literary Beacon Hill: The 20th Century
6:30pm •
Dinner Break
8:00pm •
Grub Turns Twenty: Forever Young
Tremont Room
10:15am •
5F: Essentials of Suspense in Memoir
FULL
11:45am •
6N: 'There’s No Market for That!' How to Make the Specific Universal
FILLING
2:00pm •
7L: X-Ray Writing: Techniques for Getting Closer to Your Characters (Section 2)
FILLING
3:45pm •
8B: Dialogue in Fiction: How Art Does Not Imitate Life
FILLING
White Hill Room
10:15am •
5K: Keep the Pages Turning: The Art of Pacing
FILLING
11:45am •
6M: Writing Suspense
FILLING
2:00pm •
7F: The 3-Step Formula for Building an Author Platform
FULL
3:45pm •
8G: Your First Page Workshop
FULL
Whittier Room
10:15am •
5B: Query Lab
FILLING
11:45am •
6J: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Find Your Missing Plot Points (Section 1)
FULL
2:00pm •
7K: Sell Your Story in a Single Sentence
FILLING
3:45pm •
8F: Layering: A Structured Approach to Revision (Section II)
FILLING
Winthrop Room
10:15am •
5M: The Author is a Lonely Hunter: Finding Your Stories
11:45am •
6E: Tell It Slant : Cross-Genre Innovations
FULL
2:00pm •
7C: Rethinking Horror
FILLING
3:45pm •
8D: Publish. Promote. Profit. How Top Self-Published Authors Promote - and Sell - Their Books
Sunday
, May 7
Back Bay Room
10:00am •
9D: The Art of the Promotional Elevator Pitch
11:30am •
10F: Telling a Story with Your Book Proposal
Beacon Hill Room
10:00am •
9H: Five Pillars of Place: Setting in Memoir
11:30am •
10M: Lessons from the Novel Incubator
FULL
Cabot Room
10:00am •
9J: Writing Through Your Blocks
11:30am •
10H: Stalking the Self: Developing a Point of View in Memoir
Cambridge Room
10:00am •
9A: Essentials of First Person Point of View
11:30am •
10A: More Than 'Making It Work': How to Make Real Money Writing
FILLING
Charles River Room
10:00am •
9N: Unreliable Narrators
11:30am •
10K: Essaying Identity: Finding Voice in Hybrid and Mixed Genre Forms
Franklin Room
10:00am •
9F: New Digital Tools: Make Your Social Media Marketing Easier and More Effective
FILLING
11:30am •
10D: Many Paths to Publishing: On the Democratization of Literary Publishing & Finding YOUR Best Path
Grand Ballroom
1:00pm •
Marketplace Keynote: 'The Strategic Writer'
FILLING
Newbury Room
10:00am •
9M: The Motivated Writer
11:30am •
10L: Creative Problem Solving for Novelists in Progress
St. James Room
10:00am •
9L: Tackling Tragedy in Young Adult With Different Mediums
11:30am •
10J: Truth and Taboo: Writing Past Shame
Stuart Room
10:00am •
9C: You Know More Than You Think
11:30am •
10E: Research in Service to the Story— Story in Service to Research
TBA
8:30am •
Breakfast, Bookstore and Authors’ Bazaar Browsing
Tremont Room
10:00am •
9E: How To Be Your Own Best Editor
FULL
11:30am •
10G: Dramatis Personae, or What Are All These Characters Doing in Your Story?
FULL
White Hill Room
10:00am •
9B: Literary Idol: Fiction Focus
FILLING
11:30am •
10B: Literary Idol: Non-Fiction Focus
Whittier Room
10:00am •
9K: Stick Figure Structure: A Quick & Easy Way to Find Your Missing Plot Points (Section 2)
FILLING
11:30am •
10C: Demystifying Publishing Deals
FULL
Winthrop Room
10:00am •
9G: Talking to the Master: Writing Short Stories That Respond to Others
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